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People who downloaded this - does this contain any form of tagging of the data? For example, do news articles contain visit counts? Article sentiment? Any form
by inglor 11y ago
People who downloaded this - does this contain any form of tagging of the data? For example, do news articles contain visit counts? Article sentiment? Any form of structured information?
Otherwise, what benefit does this have over scarping news sites?
- GrantS 11y agoThe interesting data here aren't the news articles themselves, but the news-browsing history of 20 million people over a 4 month period. To answer your first question, though, according to the official description of the dataset [1], "On the item side, we are releasing the title, summary, and key-phrases of the pertinent news article." [1] http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=r&did=75 http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=r&did...
- redrummr 11y agoDid you read the article? It seems like they are providing data on the stories people clicked, and at what time, so you can draw temporal and recommendation hypotheses. Some device and location specifics are provided. Scraping can only tell the scraper's story. This data tells millions of people's stories.